At the Mountains of Madness

with jubilance and unforeseen peril. David had participated in an act that was deemed grisly and obscene. Conversant anxiety and societal reverence sank in: “That body suddenly seemed the black opening of a cavern in which I would be tortured till madness came, in which I would lose my manhood…The sweat on my back grew cold. I was ashamed.” (Baldwin 8). The degradation that the protagonist feels is the reaction of someone who has grown up in an antiquated nation. According to Harry Thomas’…

Percy Bysshe Shelley Research Paper Percy Bysshe Shelley’s works reveal the major theme in nineteenth century Romanism that love is the most precious gift of human being in the world. Shelley also illustrates another theme of after death. In Love’s Philosophy, Shelley uses personification and metaphor to express love; In Ozymandias, Shelley demonstrate the idea of after death; The theme that fighting for life is still appearing in modern artistic forms, for instance, Viva La Vida. The dominant…

Gordon 5 destroy to create an adult?’. The depressed person, however, is the inversion of child and adult in that they tread the traceable threads back to childhood, against the forces towing the line towards adulthood. The child garners much glee when they begin to walk: “‘Now we have heard enough of the tight-rope walker; let us see him, too!’”. A ‘tightrope state’ in the ethical imprisonment of the ‘child’ (the ‘self as other’) and ethical administration by the ‘adult’ (the ‘self for other’).…

Manipulation, Power and Hysteria Humans, from birth, have an innate desire to follow powerful and respected leaders in a crowd-- even through times of madness and savagery, such as Adolf Hitler and the propaganda and manipulation techniques he put into use to gain his desires. Both The Crucible and Lord of the Flies target the dangers of hysteria that humans manufacture, panic that one person fabricates that another person or group accepts, through the comparative pairings of the witches and…

A broadly known speech that makes evident the power of rhetoric is “I Have A Dream” by Martin Luther King Junior, which was delivered at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963. This civil rights leader proclaimed his views about human equality for all African Americans to have equals opportunities in the United States. His speech is known as one of the largest civil rights demonstrations in history. His symbolism, powerful persuasion, tone and diction helped to create an impact on his public…

soldier to shake the jar, the fifth soldier drew a black bean. The drawings went on and the 17 unlucky Texans were shot in groups of 8 and 9 at sunset. Though Mexican soldiers thought that they had killed all the Texans, one escaped. He fled to the mountains, but was later found and…

J.R.R Tolkien represents the motif of the fall in a variety of ways in his writing. He does the fall as an allegory, as he is opposed to making moral or political arguments. The fall is a tool used in his writing used in a theological sense to understand the Primary World through his sub-creations. In this essay, I shall discuss how the fall is portrayed in Tolkien’s work by surveying the falls of Melkor, Saruman, Boromir and Gollum. The first character that falls in the history and chronology…

them mad, the media said they were never going to survive; Little did they know that Mr Musk, the madman that spearheaded this exploration had his own survival plan, not just for him but for the 250 crew members with him. Now centuries later, that madness; that single act of innovation stemming from the need to safe the human race is now the only thing saving the human race. The North Koreans attacked first, heralding the start of world war three. The Russians retaliated with a secret…

Humans have the potential to become a monster, but whether that potential displays itself or not depends on the person and their environment. When a person does posses the traits of a monster though, like Victor in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, it can have disastrous consequences on everyone around them. In the novel, Victor begins as a humble university student striving for more knowledge. Meanwhile, he becomes more selfish and is void of any compassion towards the being he creates. As a…

Oliver criticizes him by stating “Companion, it is your doing. I will tell you what makes a vassal good: it is judgement, it is never madness; restraint is worth more than the raw nerve of a fool. Frenchmen are dead because of your wildness.” Roland replies by not saying a word back and just going on with what he is doing. This takes strength, mentally and physically. Mentally to not say…